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Johns Hopkins Manages MIT 10-9 in Eastern Championship Second Round
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Kyle Gertridge (Jr., Palo Alto, Calif.), Jamie Neuwirth (Jr., Ross, Calif.), Peter Sauerhoff (Jr., St. Louis, Mo.) and John Barrett (So., Clarendon Hills, Ill.) all scored pairs of goals to power Johns Hopkins University to a 10-9 win over Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The win places Johns Hopkins into the fifth place game at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 23 versus the winner of a second round game between Bucknell University and Iona College. MIT will meet the loser of the Bison-Gaels clash at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday in the seventh place game.
Leading 5-3 at halftime, the Blue Jays saw their lead sliced to a goal as MIT's Mike Smith-Bronstein (Sr., Mercer Island, Wash.) ripped a shot inside a post at the 6:32 mark of the third period. Hopkins fired back with a score by Barrett on an exclusion chance at 4:52, but the Engineers returned the margin to a goal with 54 seconds left in the period as Matt Chapa (Fr., Baytown, Texas) scored to pull MIT to within 6-5 with eight minutes of play left.
The fourth period saw an explosion of offense as Neuwirth buried an exclusion goal at 7:21, Mark Artz (Jr., Deerfield Beach, Fla.) tallied an advantage goal at 6:38 to pull MIT back to within 7-6, Sauerhoff scored a natural goal at 4:38 to push the margin back to two and Devin Lewis (Jr., San Francisco, Calif.) tallied a marker for the Engineers to put the score at 8-7 with 4:25 left in the fourth period.
The teams continued the pattern as Neuwirth scored for Hopkins at 4:10, Lewis tallied another goal for MIT at 3:42 and Gertridge rifled a penalty shot home at 3:27 to put the Blue Jays in front 10-8.
MIT attempted to comeback as Smith-Bronstein scored on a penalty shot at 1:31, but the JHU defense locked down as the Engineers final shot with four seconds left on the clock sailed high to hand the Blue Jays the win.
The game was a dramatic shift from the last meeting between the two teams as Johns Hopkins captured the Division III Eastern title, the 11th in program history, in Baltimore with a 22-15 victory over MIT on October 26.
In cage, Chris Hutchens (Sr., Granite Bay, Calif.) made 13 saves to earn the win, while Columbus Leonard (Fr., San Francisco, Calif.) stopped five shots for MIT.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Final |
| MIT | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| Johns Hopkins | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
JHU Goals: Kyle Gertridge (2); Jamie Neuwirth (2); Peter Sauerhoff (2); John Barrett (2); Antonio Aguilera; Josh Kratz
MIT Goals: Mike Smith-Bronstein (3); Devin Lewis (2); Matt Chapa (2); Nick Souza; Mark Artz
Saves: JHU - Chris Hutchens (13) ; MIT - Columbus Leonard (5)
Ejections: JHU - 8 ; MIT - 12
Sprints: JHU - 4 (1st - Kyle Gertridge, 2nd & 4th - Jamie Neuwirth, 3rd - John Barrett) ; MIT - 0
